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The struggle with many a rigid Logooli cultural practices

  The Logooli community is one of the deeply cultured societies – with near everything supposed to have been done as per custom – to allow another custom to follow. One example is that for a mature man (with a child or more) to be buried, there must be a house structure at home. Another is that a boy must be circumcised and nursed in father land. If maternal family decides to, the boy will have a hard time reconnecting with father people - a dent on his masculinity. There were two children who got burnt to death in a house in Nairobi. The single mother had left for night work. Elders were told that one of the children was Logooli. The other, the woman had sired with someone else. The Logooli family wanted to burry their little one and long discussed the do’s and don’ts. Of a man who died childless and the grave was placed as if he had died as a man with children. It should have been dug on the sides, the grave. A real thorn should have been thrust in his buttocks, his name go...
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Izava Walk : Mwana We Imbiri Nichekoyero

When a child died, moreso a first born, the child was shallowly burried to quicken another begetting. An aged person was beautifully tied in reeds and burried in a grave that 'L' d in shape. The ritual of preserving a corpse through drying in dung geyser was reported.

Mwana we imbiri nichekoyero was a song dedicated to firstborns, showing the importance that were and need to be given respect. It later became a social ceremony song. Being first, whether son or daughter gave one key responsibilities to the harmonious operation of a family.

On matters marriage, a girl was asked to grind flour when a pot was already on fire. People waiting kuragira. If one did not fastened isio against the grinding stone in quick takes and gives she would be called lazy. If the pot you took to the spring broke, my new wife would better go to her motherland before being told so.

Engoko ndavu ndenya kwaruriza!
Ndenya Kwarurizaa, ndenya Kwarurizaa
Nindio kwarange, vana vitu! Nindio kwarange!

Midigiru and viriri were all needed for the purpose above. The drum wasn't applying here. The response of singers was in stumping the ground as strong as it was and is.

Our girls married to Idaho and we also married there. It happens that Idahos got the vakevi. During the season, these men of the old, quick in steps and fast on bills beat their small drums frenzily to Maragolis to mark the important of the times.

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